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Cornell Law School
Cornell University Library
Mitchel Lasser 
Jack G. Clarke Professor of Law
Books
"Is the separation of powers the basis for the legitimacy of an internationalised judiciary?" in Highest Courts and Globalisation (Sam Muller and Sidney Richards, eds.) (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2010).
Judicial Transformations: The Rights Revolution in the Courts of Europe (Oxford University Press, 2009).
Judicial Deliberations:  A Comparative Analysis of Judicial Transparency, Control, Debate and Legitimacy (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004), (reissued in paperback in 2009).
Contributions to Books
"Transforming Deliberations" in The Legitimacy of Highest Courts’ Rulings: Judicial Deliberations and Beyond (T.M.C. Assert Press, Nick Huls, Maurice Adams & Jacco Bomhoff, eds. 2009).
"The Question of Understanding," in Comparative Legal Studies:  Traditions and Transitions 197-239 (Cambridge University Press, P. Legrand and R. Munday, eds. 2003).
"Trois Palais; Deux Styles?," in Le Droit Civil, Avant Tout un Style? 121-52 (Montreal: Éd. Thémis, Nicholas Kasirer, ed. 2003).

"Is There a Transatlantic Common Core of Judicial Discourse?," in Making European Law. Essays on the Common Core Project 203-209 (Kluwer, Mauro Bussani and Ugo Mattei eds., 2d ed. 2002).

Articles
“Les récentes modifications du processus de décision à la Cour de cassation : le regard
bienveillant, mais inquiet, d’un comparatiste nord-américain,” Revue Trimestrielle de Droit Civil 691-706 (Oct.-Dec. 2006).
"Reflections on Lee" (In Memoriam:  Lee E. Teitelbaum 1941-2004), 7 Journal of Law & Family Studies 495-96 (2005).
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"The European Pasteurization of French Law," 90 Cornell Law Review 995-1083 (2005).
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"Comparative Readings of Roscoe Pound’s Jurisprudence," 50 American Journal of Comparative Law 719-51 (2002).
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"La MacDonald-isation du discours judiciaire français," 45 Archives de philosophie du droit 137-48 (2001).
"Do Judges Deploy Policy?," 22 Cardozo Law Review 863-99 (2001).
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"Comparative Law and Comparative Literature: A Project in Progress," 1997 Utah Law Review 471-524 (1998).
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"‘Lit. Theory’ Put to the Test: A Comparative Literary Analysis of American Judicial Tests and French Judicial Discourse," 111 Harvard Law Review 689-770 (1998).
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"Judicial (Self-)Portraits: Judicial Discourse in the French Legal System," 104 Yale Law Journal 1325-410 (1995).
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Electronic Publications
"Anticipating Three Models of Judicial Control, Debate and Legitimacy: The European Court of Justice, the Cour de cassation and the United States Supreme Court," NYU Jean Monnet Working Paper no. 1/03.
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